Hello, On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:33:50PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > OK, so you suggest to do the following: > > 1. Add a flag into struct kthread_worker that will prevent > from further queuing. This doesn't add any protection, right? It's getting freed anyway. > 2. kthread_create_worker()/kthread_destroy_worker() will > not longer dynamically allocate struct kthread_worker. > They will just start/stop the kthread. Ah, okay, I don't think we need to change this. I was suggesting to simplify it by dropping the draining and just do flush from destroy. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html